8/27/2010 @ 5:20PM

In Pictures: The Top Tailgating Towns

Foxboro, Mass.

Gillette Stadium

The menu here–lobster, clams, striped bass–reads like one in a restaurant. Some of the fans at Gillette Stadium caught their tailgate ingredients themselves and brought it to the tailgate, fresh on ice. Even if you didn’t catch your own breakfast/lunch/supper, there’s enough lobster, chowder, little necks, and other frutti di mare to go around. (Tailgates in Baltimore and San Francisco can also be hot seafood scenes.) The tailgating at the first home game of the year at Gillette is as all-out as the last home game. The one thing you won’t see here is leisurely eating into the first quarter if the Patriots are putting together another superlative year–no one wants to miss a second of any home game when the Patriots could be on their way to another AFC Championship.